From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Bryan Shumsky <bzs@via.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory mapped files question
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:36:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8180000.1050330998@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002101c30239$fc0ae630$fe64a8c0@webserver>
> Hi, everyone. I'm running into a problem that I hope someone else has seen,
> and maybe can help solve. We're using the mmap system function for memory
> mapped files, but our updates never get flushed until we munmap or msysnc.
> Are we missing something? Is there a tunable parameter in the kernel or
> filing system that can be set to flag these updates as 'write required'?
This was discussed about a week ago on either linux-kernel or linux-mm.
The short answer is "yes, that's deliberate", but an archive search would
probably be fruitful.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-14 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-14 3:57 Bryan Shumsky
2003-04-14 14:36 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-04-14 15:07 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-04-14 15:04 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-14 18:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-14 20:39 ` Chris Friesen
2003-04-14 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-14 19:31 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-04-14 19:42 ` Bryan Shumsky
2003-04-14 19:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 21:24 ` Chris Friesen
2003-04-14 20:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-14 20:27 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2003-04-14 20:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-14 22:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-15 4:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-15 5:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-14 19:50 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
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